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Roxham Road: RCMP demolish last building at unofficial migrant crossing in Quebec

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The last RCMP building at Roxham Road, which became an unofficial border crossing used by over 100,000 migrants to enter Canada from Upstate New York for asylum purposes since 2017, was demolished on Monday.

"The number of migrants that cross through Roxham has dwindled and our presence is no longer necessary,” RCMP Sgt. Charles Poirier said.

The unofficial crossing was shut down in late March after the U.S. and Canada closed a long-standing loophole in the 2004 Safe Third Country Agreement to make the deal apply to the 8,900 kilometers of shared border.

All that closing Roxham Road has done, she said, is “pushed the problem to other places,” Frances Ravensbergen, a community member Bridges Not Borders, said.

Ravensbergen added that while Roxham Road wasn’t “the perfect solution,” it at least offered a safe place to cross.

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